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Message-ID: <49E4C5BD.1040405@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:19:57 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, xemul@...allels.com,
serue@...ibm.com, dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu,
orenl@...columbia.edu, hch@...radead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] C/R OpenVZ/Virtuozzo style
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>> We're not merging OpenVZ code _either_.
>> This is to give example of other prefixes: cpt_ and rst_
>> Are they fine?
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5513.txt
> Do you secretly work for IBM?
>
> IBM has a well-known disdain for vowels, and basically refuses to use them
> for mnemonics (they were called on this, and did "eieio" as an instruction
> just to try to make up for it).
>
> But I'm from Finland. In Finnish, about 75% of all letters are vowels. I
> find this dis-emvoweling to be stupid and impractical. Without vowels, you
> can't tell Finnish words apart (admittedly, _with_ vowels, you generally
> cannot pronounce them, so to a non-Finn it doesn't much matter).
>
> My point is, let's go for a happy medium - LEAVE THE F*CKING VOWELS IN
> PLACE ALREADY.
>
> So let's call it "checkpoint" and "restore". Ok?
restart ?
--
~Randy
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